“If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.”
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In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.